Thanks for the reply. If you ever find anyone as listed with origins in LaPorte County Indiana, I'd love to hear about it. Our early county history details several "associations" of men who went to the California gold fields. Some returned, others did not. This accounts for my interest in your project(s). Thanks again. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Silver" <ssilver1951@jps.net> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > Hi Donna, > > Not to my knowledge - at least not statewide. In our county we are doing > Interment Identification Listings and compiling old tombstone inventories, > news death notices and obituaries, church records, etc. We also pull all > the census information on the families, and in this way we are able to > identify (for the most part) where are deceased pioneers came from. > > Eventually it would be nice to be able to have a complete database with this > information so it could be manipulated by that type of variable. > Hmmm...just another project....ack! > > Sue Silver > El Dorado County > (where the 1848-49 rush first started...) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "D. Nelson" <dnelson@csinet.net> > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:15 PM > Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > > > > This question is for Sue -- is there a list available which shows the > > known Hoosiers who died there during the Gold Rush? It would be > > interesting to see who they are and where they're from. > > > > Thanks. > > Donna > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Sue Silver" <ssilver1951@jps.net> > > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:51 PM > > Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > > > > > > > Lois, > > > > > > Tell them that we in California are trying desperately to save the > > graves of > > > Hoosier's who moved out for the gold rush (and later). The least > > they can > > > do is save the graves of those who stayed home. > > > > > > Sue Silver > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Lois Mauk" <Lois@divorceinkentucky.com> > > > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:19 PM > > > Subject: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > > > > > > > > > > I've been asked to attended the House and Senate's Natural > > Resources Study > > > > Committee meeting tomorrow in Spencer, Indiana (just west of > > Bloomington) > > > to > > > > speak to the Committee on the subject of "portable cemeteries" in > > Indiana. > > > > > > > > Is there anyone in the group who is willing or able to join me > > there for > > > > "moral support"? > > > > > > > > We obviously got the Committee's attention with the 2,500 +/- > > Petition > > > > signatures that we delivered to Rep. Lytle on 10/6/2001. This may > > be the > > > > last meeting of the Committee before the Legislature goes into its > > short > > > > session. Now that we have their attention, I feel it is incumbent > > upon us > > > > to show up to state our case. > > > > > > > > Lois > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > > > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never > > know. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > > If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living? > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite. > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > This list is for discussion of topics related to the Indiana Pioneer > Cemeteries Restoration Project only.

Actually, one of the early entrepreuners in El Dorado County came her from LaPorte. His name was Dr. Leverett Bradley. He and his sons came out first and the went back for his wife, Maria. He was a civil engineer and designed a ditch and canal system that was known as the Bradley, Berdan & Co. ditch and reservoirs. It took water from the South Fork of the American River and Weber Creeks and sent it westward where there were only little creeks and streams. A good portion of that system is still in use today. Dr. Bradley also surveyed the California State Wagon Road BEFORE the state surveyor got there. He made several recommendations that were accepted (and others that weren't.) His son, Joseph Bradley, apparently despondent over business losses (a lawsuit) and a letter from his intended in Indiana, committed suicide in December 1853. His grave is in the Diamond Springs Cemetery on what was part of the original emigrant road from Pleasant Valley to Sacramento City. Another son, Cyrus H. Bradley, was also in this county and in Folsom, Sacramento County. He had a number of merchantile stores in both counties. He married Cordelia Rickey, whose father is credited with founding the town of Ione, Amador County, south of Sacramento County. They moved to Oakland in the latter part of the 1860's, lost a couple of kids there, and ended up in Los Angeles, where he died in 1906. In 1992, I bought the house Cyrus and his partner built in Folsom in the year 1859. That's partly how I became interested in history and then, ultimately cemeteries. "The Bradley House" is the only bed and breakfast in Folsom today (if you exclude Folsom Prison!). It is one of the oldest houses in that town. One of Cyrus' daughters became the wife of the first Chancellor of the University of Southern California (USC). That's as far as I know of the family. I believe that Dr. Bradley and his wife, Maria, lost two children while living in LaPorte County. Don't know where their graves are though. Everybody has a story. Sometimes the only one you learn is that told from the grave stone. May we remember them always. Sue Silver ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Nelson" <dnelson@csinet.net> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > Thanks for the reply. If you ever find anyone as listed with origins > in LaPorte County Indiana, I'd love to hear about it. Our early > county history details several "associations" of men who went to the > California gold fields. Some returned, others did not. This accounts > for my interest in your project(s). > > Thanks again. > > Donna > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Silver" <ssilver1951@jps.net> > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:45 PM > Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > > > > Hi Donna, > > > > Not to my knowledge - at least not statewide. In our county we are > doing > > Interment Identification Listings and compiling old tombstone > inventories, > > news death notices and obituaries, church records, etc. We also > pull all > > the census information on the families, and in this way we are able > to > > identify (for the most part) where are deceased pioneers came from. > > > > Eventually it would be nice to be able to have a complete database > with this > > information so it could be manipulated by that type of variable. > > Hmmm...just another project....ack! > > > > Sue Silver > > El Dorado County > > (where the 1848-49 rush first started...) > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "D. Nelson" <dnelson@csinet.net> > > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:15 PM > > Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > > > > > > > This question is for Sue -- is there a list available which shows > the > > > known Hoosiers who died there during the Gold Rush? It would be > > > interesting to see who they are and where they're from. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Donna > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Sue Silver" <ssilver1951@jps.net> > > > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:51 PM > > > Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > > > > > > > > > > Lois, > > > > > > > > Tell them that we in California are trying desperately to save > the > > > graves of > > > > Hoosier's who moved out for the gold rush (and later). The > least > > > they can > > > > do is save the graves of those who stayed home. > > > > > > > > Sue Silver > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Lois Mauk" <Lois@divorceinkentucky.com> > > > > To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> > > > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:19 PM > > > > Subject: [INPCRP] Natural Resources Study Committee > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've been asked to attended the House and Senate's Natural > > > Resources Study > > > > > Committee meeting tomorrow in Spencer, Indiana (just west of > > > Bloomington) > > > > to > > > > > speak to the Committee on the subject of "portable cemeteries" > in > > > Indiana. > > > > > > > > > > Is there anyone in the group who is willing or able to join me > > > there for > > > > > "moral support"? > > > > > > > > > > We obviously got the Committee's attention with the 2,500 +/- > > > Petition > > > > > signatures that we delivered to Rep. Lytle on 10/6/2001. This > may > > > be the > > > > > last meeting of the Committee before the Legislature goes into > its > > > short > > > > > session. Now that we have their attention, I feel it is > incumbent > > > upon us > > > > > to show up to state our case. > > > > > > > > > > Lois > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > > > > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never > > > know. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > > > If we cannot respect the dead, how can we respect the living? > > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > > Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite. > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > > This list is for discussion of topics related to the Indiana Pioneer > > Cemeteries Restoration Project only. > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families > are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is > undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, > historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved > in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - > not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family > memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of > yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery > exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA > >